Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. (Susan Sontag)

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

Susan Sontag

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